Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Open Carry Weekend Reminder and my 2 cents

Just a reminder that OC weekend is coming up June 2-3.

It seems there is a segment of the gunnie population that is against
Open Carry, and a few of them quite vociferously so. I was going to add my 2
cents to the discussion (echo chamber?) when I realized that I can’t do it as
well as Linoge, or the comments here
, or Robb, or a bunch of others, and it doesn’t matter.

While some will bemoan my lack of “training”, Sweet Daughter will be
explaining to a kid in Target who wanted to know “why that lady has a gun” that
I wear a gun to keep her safe.Others
will assume I must be an “attention whore” and I wear a gun in order to start
conversations. That being said, if you're staring at my gun which just happens
to be next to my left boob and you hurriedly complement the azalea in my
shopping cart (directly in front of my left boob) as a way to prove you weren't
really staring at my gun or my boob, I will respond in a pleasant manner even
though I really didn’t notice you staring because I just want to check out and
go home. And no, I’m not just waiting for my opportunity to engage in “ass-clownery”
so I can pump my fist in the air and yell “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!” when in
fact I’m a raging introvert that just wants to do my errands in safety.

I have my own reasons to OC and I’m very thankful that I live in a part
of the world where I can do so. If there
are those that don’t like OC, then by all means – don’t do it. I’ll make a deal
with you – I won’t tell you what do to, and you don’t tell me what to do.
Because I don’t remember asking your opinion, and I certainly don’t need your
permission.

I OC in my home state because they insist that I have to have a license to CC there, and I've decided that I'm strongly opposed to getting a license to exercise a right. I'm also not bold enough to just break the law, even though I see it as unjust, because I don't need the trouble. And I'll be damned if I'll be defenceless just to make anti-OC folks happy.

'You know in the bell curve of bad-assness you are on the far edge. Maybe not as far as female helicopter door gunners but you are closer to her that to the soccer moms...'- someone who wishes to remain anonymous